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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
"All honor to him who shall win the prize,"
The world has cried for a thousand years;
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"All honor to him who shall win the prize,"
The world has cried for a thousand years;
But to him who tries and fails and dies,
I give great honor and glory and tears.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
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Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
[Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno
Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum
Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]
Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Never say
"Fail" again.
Never say
"Fail" again.
